I cann't access a namespaces in referenced assemblies in MVC Views

Question

Some times there are an intellisense problem in the views, the namespaces in the referenced assemblies don't appear in the intellisense only in views but the do appear in .cs code files in the same project..

i've tried these ways:

<pages>
  <namespaces>
    <add namespace="MyNameSpace" />
  </namespaces>
</pages>

in the web.config file

    <compilation debug="true" targetFramework="4.0">
      <assemblies>
         <add assembly="SomeAssembly.Name" />
      </assemblies>
    </compilation>

and:

   <%@ Assembly Name="SomeAssembly.Name" %>
     <%@ Import Namespace="SomeNamespace.Name" %>

at the beginning of the view

Answer 1

Yes that happens. Intellisense is not perfect especially in views. Try recompiling the project after adding the necessary references, run it to make sure that it works at runtime and if you still don't get Intellisense in the views you can curse at Microsoft. Happened to me today but even worse in a C# file (restarting Visual Studio fixed it :-)).